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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2273253" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>More years ago then I would like to admit I was trapping coyote and bobcats up on the mountain above 8000 feet . In late November there isn't any green grass to be found up that high just browns and the grays of the grass and granite rocks as well as the pine and bare aspen with some snow blowing in the cold breeze . I had a couple of good well protected sets made by an old road that lead to an abandoned cabin . As I was driving to them I saw what appeared to be a large rock by one of my sets and wondered who would have done that to my trap . As I got closer the rock jumped up and started fighting it's restraint it was a large tom bobcat and had been curled up sleeping protected from the wind . I dispatched it loaded it in my truck and finished my route . When I got home I took it to my garage where I did my fur work . I had a bathroom scale set up there as well , I would hold an animal and weigh us then me without them and find out what they weighed that way . This bobcat weighed 48 pounds . When it was stretched and dried it measured 48 inch's from the tip of it's nose to the base of it's tail with it's hips stretched to 7 inch's wide . It had a nice blue gray back with a very white belly and sharp black spots and well used teeth . When I worked with the USDA guys the biologist ask me if I would save some of my bigger bobcat heads for him . He would clean them and make measurements then record them for a study being done . One of the cat heads that I gave him was an old tom cat but was still in good shape that weighed a little more then 47 pounds and measured 49 inch's tip of nose to base of tail . He told me it was the largest skull that had been recorded so far and the age of the cat it came from was estimated at 12-13 years old . Mike and I worked together often and he taught me a lot about different things that we got to do that weren't what I had done in the past . He had access to a lot of studies done that most of us wouldn't even think of .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2273253, member: 91783"] More years ago then I would like to admit I was trapping coyote and bobcats up on the mountain above 8000 feet . In late November there isn't any green grass to be found up that high just browns and the grays of the grass and granite rocks as well as the pine and bare aspen with some snow blowing in the cold breeze . I had a couple of good well protected sets made by an old road that lead to an abandoned cabin . As I was driving to them I saw what appeared to be a large rock by one of my sets and wondered who would have done that to my trap . As I got closer the rock jumped up and started fighting it's restraint it was a large tom bobcat and had been curled up sleeping protected from the wind . I dispatched it loaded it in my truck and finished my route . When I got home I took it to my garage where I did my fur work . I had a bathroom scale set up there as well , I would hold an animal and weigh us then me without them and find out what they weighed that way . This bobcat weighed 48 pounds . When it was stretched and dried it measured 48 inch's from the tip of it's nose to the base of it's tail with it's hips stretched to 7 inch's wide . It had a nice blue gray back with a very white belly and sharp black spots and well used teeth . When I worked with the USDA guys the biologist ask me if I would save some of my bigger bobcat heads for him . He would clean them and make measurements then record them for a study being done . One of the cat heads that I gave him was an old tom cat but was still in good shape that weighed a little more then 47 pounds and measured 49 inch's tip of nose to base of tail . He told me it was the largest skull that had been recorded so far and the age of the cat it came from was estimated at 12-13 years old . Mike and I worked together often and he taught me a lot about different things that we got to do that weren't what I had done in the past . He had access to a lot of studies done that most of us wouldn't even think of . [/QUOTE]
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